US Launches New Attack on Boat in the Caribbean

The United States announced that they bombed another boat in the Caribbean, accusing it of being linked to drug traffickers. The information was confirmed by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Thursday (6). Three people on board the vessel died. ‘As we have stated before, attacks on vessels associated with narco-terrorists will continue until the poisoning of the American people ceases,’ Hegseth posted on a social media platform. This marks the 18th boat attacked by the country in just over a month, with ten in the Caribbean Sea and eight in the Pacific Ocean. So far, according to US government data, 69 people have died.

On the previous Friday (31), the United Nations (UN) urged President Donald Trump’s government to halt the attacks on suspicious drug trafficking vessels. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, referred to the boat attacks as ‘extrajudicial executions.’ ‘These attacks, with their increasing human cost, are unacceptable. The United States must end such attacks and take all necessary measures to prevent extrajudicial executions of people on board these vessels, regardless of any alleged criminal activity,’ Türk stated in a press release.

This was the first time the UN spoke out about Donald Trump’s government operations near the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia, which started in September. The attacks are part of Trump’s administration offensive against Latin American drug cartels, which the US claims to be at war with. A significant military presence has been deployed to the Latin America region, and the US Army has been carrying out these attacks.

The operation was ordered by Donald Trump himself to the Pentagon with the argument of preventing drug-carrying boats from entering the United States—although US media speculated that the real objective of the offensive is to overthrow Nicolás Maduro’s regime. Data from the United Nations (UN) also undermine the official version of the operations: the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s 2025 World Drug Report indicates that the drug causing the most overdoses in the US, fentanyl, comes from Mexico, which is close to the US West Coast.

The Venezuelan government denounces a US attempt at regime change in Venezuela. Colombia has also publicly criticized the attacks on vessels, labeling them as extrajudicial executions.